Sentence examples for engaging confrontation from inspiring English sources

The understatedly engaging confrontation came on the day I read about the average SAT score dropping to a new low, a fact partly attributed to the greater diversity of students taking the test.

The fringe groups that have announced plans to monitor for voter fraud said their members should be dressed in plainclothes and quietly watching for illegal behavior – not engaging in confrontations.

But he also warned demonstrators subtly about engaging in confrontations or vandalizing buildings at public protests.

The higher the score on the 'Conflict handling: engage in confrontation' dimension, the more likely the physician is to engage in confrontation with the client in the event of a difference of opinion.

It's important to note that the jury's verdict sends a message to anyone confronted or pursued by another man: If you engage the confrontation, even an act of self defense could be used as justification to shoot and kill you.

We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

Merton continued his spiritual search, but his voyage was largely within, and he never engaged in confrontation.

These were black-bloc activists – some anarchist, some communist, some apolitical – in general more willing to engage in confrontation and property damage (thus the efforts to anonymise themselves).

Opening the "strategic economic dialogue" on Wednesday morning, Vice Premier Wu Yi warned the American delegation not to engage in "confrontation and finger pointing" or in "politicizing trade issues," and suggested that American leaders were blaming China for their country's own economic shortcomings.

The Global Times editorial, meanwhile, said local provincial officials were not behind changes to the New Year message, adding that activists outside China's media industry - including US-based blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng - had been "inciting some media to engage in confrontation".

Anyone who does act too aggressively is quickly pushed back by protest organisers, but neither the police nor army show any sign of wanting to engage in confrontation themselves.